Declutter Your Home Checklist

Decluttering you home can seem like a big job that’s both stressful and arduous, and nobody wants to get to the end of their skip hire and realise they have missed some clutter they could have gotten rid of.

That’s why we’ve made it easy for you with this checklist to declutter you home. First, we will go through what you can do to make the job easier before you start cleaning anything, then we will go through the room-by-room checklist.

By following our declutter your home checklist, you won’t miss a thing or have to stress about what exactly you should be throwing out because we have done the hard work for you.

Get Organised and Prepare Your House for Decluttering:

Give your house a regular tidy-up. It will be much easier to sort through your belongings when everything has been put away and is in its place. Take this opportunity to throw out lingering trash too.

Do not buy storage or other items to declutter your home just yet. You will need to declutter and throw out trash before you buy storage otherwise you will end up with more storage items than you need and be back where you started (plus you’ll be tempted to keep things you really don’t want anymore).

Put aside more than one day to declutter your home. If you have a small home you might be able to skip this step but if you try to do more than you’re capable of doing you’ll become frustrated or stressed, and this may destroy your own motivation to finish the entire job.

Prioritise. Number each room by difficulty, time and urgency and do those rooms first.

Our Room-by-Room Declutter Checklist:

Kitchen

Place a bag or two out for items you wish to donate

Appliances that no longer work, or get used

Extra cups and mugs (how many people do you live with, and how many mugs does everyone really need)

Glassware that is looking old

Plastic cutlery, cutlery without pairs or cutlery you no longer use

Extra plates

Extra pots and pans

Containers without lids or are unused

Multiple pairs of scissors

Bakeware and utensils that you have not used in a long time

Any spares of things you only need one of

Extra cleaning rags

Bathrooms

Expired makeup or cheap makeup you do not use

Drugs and vitamins that are expired

Bobby pins that you do not need or do not have a home

Dried nail polishes or cheap nail polishes

Colognes and perfumes that you have not used in a while

Travel shampoos and soap bottles that are empty

Empty bottles

Paper or makeup wipes you don’t use

Excess brushes

Bedrooms

Socks with holes or without pairs

Extra hangers

Old shoes

Jewellery you do not wear

Too-small or too-large clothes

Miscellaneous items hidden in your beside drawers

Linen you don’t use anymore

Old pillows

Children’s toys

Board games you don’t use anymore

Stuffed animals the kids never use

Loungerooms or Spare Rooms/Closets

Paper clutter (bills, paycheques, newspapers – most of this can be kept digitally)

Books you have not read, looked at or you have forgotten about

Old decorative pillows

Christmas and birthday cards

Take away menus or Uber Eats bags

Candles that are mostly burned up

Knick knacks

Magazines

Old CDs and VHS tapes

Board games you don’t use anymore

Cords and cables without appliances

Miscellaneous

Half-finished projects

Old furniture

Garden tools you don’t use or are broken

Old party supplies

Tv boxes or other empty product boxes

Watering cans

Buttons and threads (tangled or unused)

Broken Chairs

Glass

Whether you are wanting to live a more minimalist lifestyle, clear out your home in urgency or simply declutter your home so you can live a less crowded lifestyle, this checklist will assist any home and ensure your house is in an optimised state. Contact us now and begin your journey to a tidier home.